Word Definition

Gear

  1. Clothing; garments; ornaments.
  2. Manner; custom; behavior.
  3. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
  4. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
  5. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
  6. To be in, or come into, gear.
  7. Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
  8. An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
  9. Business matters; affairs; concern.
  10. To provide with gearing.
  11. Goods; property; household stuff.
  12. Warlike accouterments.
  13. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
  14. A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

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